How to grow chillies

Here's another entry for the Community Garden "instant garden" and container gardening enthusiasts ~ even for the house bound and indoor gardener. Don't cop an attitude about the advice coming from a UK not an NM grower. Life on the Balcony, a great container gardening site, is about urban gardening but the tips and how to instructions will work here too,

They're a great crop for a busy life. Just follow a few simple rules and you could be harvesting chillies until Christmas.

Joanna Plumb is an expert chilli grower and owner of Edible Ornamentals, growing thousands of chillies every year for everyone from supermarkets to Fortnum & Mason. She's convinced that these hot fruits are a great crop for the style of growing most of us can manage in modern life: chillies are perfectly content in a pot on a sunny windowsill or patio, with fruits that can be picked over a long period and easily stored for the following year.

It's too late to grow chillies from seed this year, but now's the perfect time to buy a couple of plants: if you pick the right variety, you should be harvesting until Christmas. The best ones for growing on windowsills and patios are compact and bushy

How to grow chillies | Life and style | The Guardian